UKRA2000, Sunday 4th

There was some very heavy rain in the early hours of them morning, indeed, all weekend the weather forecast was predicting a downpour for Sunday. So it should have come as no surprise to be greeted with blue skies and sunshine. Sunday had the best weather of the weekend.

Brian again came down for the day, and became the North Star Rocketry Group's first UKRA certified RSO.

Angela launched...

• Callisto: G80-4
• Patrinot: H123, second flight of the weekend, with a bigger motor reached an altitude of 288m

Left to right:
• Callisto descends
• Patrinot on a bigger motor
• Piglet and Tigger tiptoe through the thousand acre wood.

Darren launched...

• Fat Baby: A10-3T, a donwscale clone of the Estes Fatboy
• Tintinique: G104T

Left to right:
• Fat baby launch
• Fat baby under chute
• Darren with Tintinique on the pad
• Tintinique launch
• Tintinique under chute.

Shaun launched...

• Centuri Saucer: C6-3
• X-24 Bug: C6-3
• Half Arsed: F12-5J

Left to right:
• Half Arsed takes to the skies
• Shaun recovers Half Arsed from the crop field

Pete launched...

• MiniMagg: H123

Left to right:
• "What's yer nayme, an' where d'ya come fraam?", "My name's Peeder Wadding-ton, and I'm from West York-shy-re"

Mike launched...

• Sudden Rush: I211, Mike used Darren's R-Das Altimeter for his first dual deployment flight, reached an altitude of 737m

Left to right:
• Mike's Sudden Rush on the pad
• Launch
• The main came out at apogee with the drogue

Brian launched...

• Sputnik(1): C5-3 Sputnik(2):D12-3 Pterodactyl Jnr: H73

Left to right:
• The Soviets are coming, the soviets are coming...
• That's got to be black jack propellant
• Safe recovery on a topflite 80" X- form chute

After watching MARS finally launch Primary Koncern, and settling our tabs at the bar, and with the Pete Davy and Tony Betts ( after a last fling), we set off home. Stopping only at a service station to eat junk food and talk some more about group projects, we are began planning for the International Rocket Week.

Back to overview.

Thanks to Adrian Hurt for some of the pics.